Search results for "Social Movement"
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Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City: Changing Scenarios for Radical Social Movements
2016
The right to the city, a concept previously associated with radical social movements, has been accepted by several governments and has inspired new public policies. However, some authors see this process of institutionalization as involving a loss of a significant part of the radical origins of the concept. This article approaches this process and the new opportunities and limitations it may entail for social movement organizations with a more radical perspective on the right to the city. We explore the paradigmatic case of Brazil and the action of a particular organization, the Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia (MSTB, or Homeless Movement of Bahia) in the city of Salvador. We draw on the dis…
Teatro Bene Comune: Gedanken zum italienischen Theaterfrühling
2019
This contribution describes and reevaluates the Occupied Theatre Movements in Italy (2010-2017) from a marxist and post-structuralist perspective. It situates the theatre occupations in Italy in a broader genealogy of social movements and gives a phenomenological analysis of the specific forms of community-building that caracterize contemporary critique from the Left.
Spectres of the Common: The 'Italian Theatre Spring' in the Context of Global Social Movements
Teatro Valle Occupato, MACAO Milan, ASILO Naples – since 2011 Italy has been overwhelmed by a wave of protests in which creatives, art workers and political activists have occupied theatre houses and other public buildings to fight social and economic precarisation of cultural labour and to struggle for a deeper institutional and social-political change. Through their simple physical presence, numerous artistic, social and institutional interventions as well as a well-thought-out and virally spread discourse, the “Italian Theatre Spring” has developed a critique of the contemporary amalgam of neoliberalism and representative democracy from the viewpoint of theatre. Enhancing the experimenta…
Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo: un’analisi esplorativa (paper 6.1.1.)
2014
L’intervento presenta i primi risultati di una ricerca esplorativa sugli attivisti del Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) nella città di Palermo. L’indagine sul meetup palermitano è stata condotta attraverso interviste in profondità, faccia a faccia, a 10 attivisti e a un ex attivista espulso dal M5S . Le interviste hanno permesso di cominciare a delinearne organizzazione, strategie comunicative, attività, problemi attraversati nel tempo. La traccia utilizzata per le interviste è stata elaborata da Roberto Biorcio e condivisa allo scopo di rendere i risultati della ricerca comparabili con quelli delle altre realtà italiane nelle quali è in corso. Lo schema di base è stato integrato con alcuni punti s…
The otherness of social work under neoliberal governance
2013
This special issue examines the topic of ‘understanding the Other’ from a very different perspective of ‘Otherness’, which advocates that the own Otherness of social work be reflected on as well. In the contexts of many current societies, social work itself increasingly appears as a strange element – an exceptional idea – as ‘the Other’. Moreover, a question raises over whether social work itself is understandable to those who are outside of it. In this paper, social work is distinguished at three institutional levels: as a science, as a profession and as an ideology or social movement. The paper aims at analysing how social work itself is put into the position of ‘the Other’ in the current…
Partecipazione 2.0: l’avatar scende in piazza (paper 6.3.2.)
2011
Al declino della partecipazione elettorale ed alla crisi delle capacità identificanti dei partiti fanno da contrappeso nuove forme di partecipazione politica. I new media in tale contesto hanno un ruolo essenziale sia per i grandi movimenti transnazionali, sia per i comitati locali single issue e per mobilitazioni spontanee caratterizzate dal passare con estrema rapidità dal mondo virtuale alle piazze. Nuove forme di democrazia integrano le democrazie rappresentative. Le tecnologie per la comunicazione e l’informazione hanno un forte impatto sulla definizione dei confini e dell’identità della comunità politica e possono contribuire a trasformare i processi decisionali pubblici, incrementand…
Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation: Towards a decolonial, interdisciplinary, intersectional and community-engaged research age…
2021
Abstract In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of the neoliberal conservation literature with the aim to explore and substantiate the principal ways in which conservation is neoliberalized in practice as well as who has studied these processes and through which collaborative patterns. Using descriptive statistics and thematic content analysis, we explore selected characteristics of the peer-reviewed scholarship, including most commonly used concepts, methods and topics, geographical and co-authorship patterns, critical readings of key processes of neoliberalization, including commodification, privatization, dispossession, governance rescaling, governmentalities, and its engagement…
Radical Experiences of Portuguese Social Workers in the Vanguard of the 1974 Revolution
2019
ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the contribution of social workers to the Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s. Their involvement in urban social mobilizations and in the cooperative movem...
Orígenes de las movilizaciones #primaveravalenciana. Un análisis de los actores sociales más influyentes en Twitter
2018
Twitter publics have become consolidated research objects. The main aim of this article is to make a contribution to this research current by analysing the social conditions that gave shape to the hashtag #primaveravalenciana. In order to do this, this study shall follow an analysis of the early tweets giving shape to this phenomenon. This approach shall stablish a participant's typology, identifying the most influent actors and pursuying a content analysis of relevant micro-messages which pushed forward the hashtag's viral expansion in the next few days. Against theories which tend to minimise the social distinction of digital actors, data analysis shows that the hashtag's origins were in …
Sustainable Food vs. Unsustainable Politics in the City of Palermo: The Case of an Organic Farmers' Market
2011
The island of Sicily, Italy, and its main city, Palermo, appear an ideal scenario for sustainable food provisioning: the former being the first region in Italy for organically cultivated land, the latter Italy's fifth largest city. This article explores ideals and practices of sustainable urban food systems through an example of environmental consumer activism in Palermo. It does this by narrating the story of an organic farmers' market created by citizens and producers. The article reflects critically on understandings of food-related ‘sustainability’ held by the actors involved, showing the difficulties of operationalizing the concept for qualitative, socio-cultural research. It also high…